In her previous life, she was Su Wan, the concubine of the crown prince, but she was given poisoned wine on her wedding night, and the whole family was wrongfully destroyed. After her rebirth, she transformed into a humble palace maid, sneaked into the palace, and became the sharpest knife in the hands of the blind, disabled but ruthless Ninth Prince Li Ye. Help him kill his brother and imprison his father, wash the court with blood, step by step through the mountains of corpses and seas of blood, ascend to the supreme position of the Ninth Five-Year Plan.
However, the new emperor's throne is not stable, he is riddled with poison, and there are turbulent undercurrents in the government and the opposition. Su Wan was forced to take charge of Fengyin, and in the name of Palace Chief Sizheng, he ruled with iron blood. The secrets of the twins under the dry well of the cold palace, the strange totems of the Western Xinjiang cult, the desperate letters from the concubines of the previous dynasty, the shocking mystery of heir replacement deep in the imperial mausoleum... Heavy fog and murderous intentions dragged her into a deeper whirlpool.
From an avenger to a person in power, from a chess piece to a chess player, she and the sinister emperor tested, used, warmed, and checked each other in this magnificent cage. They are accomplices, each other's only antidote and poison. When everything settled, she finally reached the top, Feng Qiwu, but found that she had never truly escaped from the palace cast with blood and secrets.